Clothespin



Jan. 22, 1929. I

c. w. MCKINNEY CLOTHESPIN Filed April 4, 1927 Patented Jan. 22, 1929.

UNITED STATES 1,700,069 PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. MCKINNEY, 0F AMARILLO, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS E. JOHNSON, 0F AMARILLO, TEXAS.

CLOTHESPIN.

Application filed April 4,

This invention relates to Wire clothes pins and aims to provide a wire clothes pin having means whereby the same may be permanently held on a clothes line.

Another important object of theinvention is to provide a clothes pin which, while constructed to be retained on the clothes line, may at the option of the user be readily and easily removed from the line.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a. device of this character including lateral connected fasteners, the intermediate portion of the wire of which the device is formed, having an elongated eye so that the fasteners may be positioned while the device is held on the clothes line.

WVith the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the de tails of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Referring to the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a an elevational view thereof showing the same as positioned on a clothes line.

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on line 33 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a sectional view taken on line 4-4 of Figure 2.

Figure 5 is a sectional view taken on. line 5-5 of Figure 2.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the device includes a body portion constructed of a length of wire material bent to provide an offset eye 5, which as shown is elongated to permit of upward movement of the body portion to secure the fasteners to be hereinafter more fully described, without the necessity of removing the device from the clothes line on which the same is positioned.

The eye 5 is slightly twisted, as shown by Figure 3 so that the clothes line on which the device is positioned, may extend in parallel relation with the body portion of the device. The fasteners which are formed at the ends of the body portion, which include the ends 6 and 7 of the length of wire, are formed by bending a'portion of the wire downwardly 1927. Serial No. 180,806.

defining loops 8 at the ends of the body and coils 9 and 10 respectively, the coils being held separated by means of the loop 11, the coils 9 and 10 being continuations of the loop, to lend resiliency to the loop to normally urge the loop 11 towards the loop 8, thereby providing jaws to be positioned over an article hung on a clothes line to clamp the article into close engagement with the clothes line.

As shown, the extremities of the end portions 6 and 7 are curved providing arms 12 that also cooperate with the loop members 11 togrip the article secured thereby.

In order that the loops and coils will be held against lateral movement with respect to each other, securing rings 14 are provided and passed through the coils and embraceportions of the loops.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the device may be readily positioned over a clothes line by spreading the side members of the eye and forcing the clothes line be tween the side members, whereupon the side members will automatically move towards each other to close the eye and insure against accidental displacement of the device.

It will thus be seen that when the device has been positioned, the device may be used for securing clothes to the line, without the necessity of removing the device from the line, but by merely pulling the device upwardly until the lower edges of the fasteners are spaced from the clothes line, and finally forcing the device downwardly.

I claim: I

A clothes pinformed of a length of wire material bent intermediate its ends to provide an elongated eye, elongated loop members formed at the ends of the length of wire, elongated loop members having their sides disposed at right angles to the first mentioned elongated loop members and cooperating with the elongated loop members to grip an article therebetween, coils formed between the first 

